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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






2. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






3. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






4. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






5. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






6. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






7. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






8. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






9. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






10. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






11. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






12. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






13. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






14. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






15. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






16. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






17. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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18. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






19. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






20. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






21. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






22. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






23. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






24. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






25. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






26. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






27. Wide Range Achievement Test






28. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






29. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






30. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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31. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






32. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






33. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






34. Whole body learning






35. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






36. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






37. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






38. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






39. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






40. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






41. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






42. Ability to understand and express spoken language






43. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






44. Open syllable






45. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






46. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






47. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






48. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






49. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






50. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound